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Malmö, Sweden’s third largest city, located in the southernmost county of Skane, is coming into its own as one of the most inspiring cities in Scandinavia for rich eating options. The city’s greatest food affair is the diversity of ethnic eats in its varied neighbourhoods. A third of Malmö’s population has foreign origins, and it’s no surprise that dishes from Thailand to Iran to Korea can be found along the city’s tree-lined streets.

“Malmö is changing very quickly right now,” says native son Marko Wramén, a writer and photographer who recently moved back to the once-gritty port city from Berlin. “New bars and restaurants are popping up like love affairs on…

Oslo is finally getting its moment in the midnight sun. The hype centers around the city’s buzzing new waterfront district, where languishing docklands have been turned into a mixed-used development set on a peninsula that juts into the fjord. Here, retail, entertainment, living and work spaces come together – urged on by an unusual combination of retired pop stars and world-class architects – in a patchwork of gleaming, angular buildings where every sightline leads to the moody waters of the fjord.